Pulling the SOHC for inspection

[Roert42]

Modern engines can be a pain to remove because of all the hoses and wire connections, plus the tight engine bays.

The real trick is when it works when you’re done with it.

 

[red78ta]

Modern engines can be a pain to remove because of all the hoses and wire connections, plus the tight engine bays.

The real trick is when it works when you’re done with it.

Haha absolutely!

Today’s goal accomplished. I put the engine on a stand. Modified a small bench I had made bc it was the right width, ended up not using my buddies stand.

My son got home today so we are chilling with him now.

 

[red78ta]

Pulled the valve covers off today, haven’t taken the water pump off yet, kinda going out of order bc I wanted to look down and see if there was any obvious damage in there. Pics of what I found below, tell me if this makes sense to yall… one side is clean and looks great, the other is rusty… makes me think that the PO was driving on one bank (4 cyl) for while, otherwise both would either be clean or rusty… well as I’m trying this maybe not, maybe one side just got rusty bc the cover was busted and so it let in outside air/salt/etc… either case both the front and rear cassettes are broken, the rear chain was still intact and tight, anyway more to look at and figure out in the coming weeks.